Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality

Chapter 506: The national teacher is probably beyond help

Prison Peak was always quiet, and even when there was noise, it was usually the wails of the prisoners.

The wails of the prisoners were typically short-lived; they would confess everything quickly. Those who refused to talk would be directly refined into artifact spirits.

Today was different. This prisoner was particularly loud, screaming for half an hour without stopping.

The prisoner had high cultivation, and despite his continuous wailing, his voice did not grow hoarse.

"So, what should we do?"

Lu Yang, Immortal Fairy, and the eldest senior sister all looked helplessly at the still-wailing national teacher.

The eldest senior sister even found the national teacher too noisy and set up a soundproof array, letting him scream inside without disturbing the outside.

Instantly, it became quiet.

Lu Yang shook his head, feeling regretful. He had finally captured a key figure from Great Yu, but it turned out the guy was a tough nut, preferring to be cursed rather than reveal any information.

She managed to lift one of the Seven Hardships and Eight Sufferings with a simple spell, but the national teacher was afflicted with all of them, plus his cultivation couldn't advance in life, and his soul would scatter after death.

This was an unprecedented great curse, one that even the national teacher, who had grasped the embryonic form of the Dao fruit of causality, couldn't lift.

"Why not give him an embryonic form of the Dao fruit, let him self-destruct a hundred times to lift the curse, and then take it back?" Lu Yang suggested.

Those who possessed a complete Dao fruit had absolute control over the embryonic forms of the Dao fruit and could give and take them at will.

Immortal Fairy shook her head, rejecting Lu Yang's proposal: "No, he already has an embryonic form of the Dao fruit in him. A person can't have two at the same time."

"Even if he didn't have the embryonic form of the Dao fruit of causality, I couldn't give him one."

"An embryonic form of the Dao fruit isn't like clothing that you can put on and take off at will."

"The embryonic form of the Dao fruit represents rules. To possess it, one must have a certain understanding of that rule. This fool knows nothing about my Immortal Dao fruit's embryonic form. If I gave it to him, his soul couldn't withstand its power and would scatter."

The national teacher's repeated performances made Immortal Fairy doubt his mental capacity, suspecting he might be a half-immortal who had bluffed his way up.

"Wait a minute, Fairy. I don't have any understanding of the Immortal Dao fruit either, yet you keep trying to force an embryonic form of it on me," Lu Yang recalled how Immortal Fairy always insisted on giving him an embryonic form of the Immortal Dao fruit.

Immortal Fairy looked at Lu Yang in surprise: "Second Leader, what are you talking about? Under my long-term guidance and subtle influence, your understanding of the Immortal Dao fruit far surpasses that of the Third Leader."

Lu Yang: "..."

Since when? How come I didn't know?

"Did you think I made you the Second Leader just because of our relationship? That's impossible. I am fair and just. The ranking in the Immortal lineage is based on strength!"

Hearing about the chance to move up, the Third Leader quickly chimed in: "First Leader, rest assured, I will diligently comprehend the Immortal Dao fruit and strive to become the Second Leader!"

Immortal Fairy looked at the Third Leader with disdain and said impatiently: "Go away. If you dare to become the Second Leader, I'll strip you of your embryonic form of the Dao fruit."

The Third Leader looked at Lu Yang with envy and slunk away.

"Can the power of a nation's fate lift the curse?" Lu Yang remembered how their sect's holy son, Meng Jingzhou, had been cursed by a traitor, unable to touch women, and had finally lifted the curse by relying on the power of a nation's fate.

The eldest senior sister nodded: "That's a method."@@novelbin@@

She crooked her finger, and the national teacher, who was rolling on the ground in pain, floated into the air, still rolling.

"I'll go to the palace. You wait for me at Prison Peak."

Since they needed the power of a nation's fate, it was naturally most convenient to go to its source.

Leaving these words, the eldest senior sister set off for the palace.

The prisoners held at Prison Peak were all extremely vicious. The timid ones would shiver just standing there.

Lu Yang, however, felt no fear. Both the new and old prisoners at Prison Peak knew him.

The new ones were captured by him, and the old ones had watched him capture the new ones.

If anyone should be afraid, it was the prisoners who should fear Lu Yang.

The prisoners whispered among themselves, afraid that Lu Yang might hear them.

The prisoners were left with only their souls, and their magic and divine senses were sealed. They had their own methods to discuss without being discovered by Lu Yang.

The cells at Prison Peak were made of refined stone ore, specially crafted to seal souls and were indestructible.

The prisoners would speak to the iron bars, transmitting their voices through the vibrations, and then use their sharp souls to sense the messages.

"My god, did you see the fight just now? A half-immortal level expert attacked Lu Yang, and Lu Yang didn't even fight back. The guy just fell down."

"This Lu Yang is unfathomable. He looks like he's only at the Golden Elixir stage, but his real strength must be far beyond that."

"Did you notice that since Lu Yang joined the Seek Tao Sect, the number of prisoners at Prison Peak has been increasing? At first, it was only Body Fusion stage, then Tribulation Crossing stage, and now even half-immortals are being captured. Can a Golden Elixir stage cultivator do that?"

"I've never seen a half-immortal in my life, and now I've seen one here."

"Is this the great struggle of the era? Even a half-immortal has become a prisoner."

The more the prisoners discussed, the more shocked they felt, realizing that Lu Yang was unfathomable and must not be offended.

Lu Yang had no idea what these vicious prisoners were discussing. Taking advantage of the eldest senior sister's absence, he continued discussing high-level topics with Immortal Fairy.

"Fairy, since immortals need to sever causality to advance further, doesn't the national teacher's embryonic form of the Dao fruit of causality give him an advantage?"

"It's not that immortals need to sever causality to advance further; it's that Heavenly Immortal Ying and the others think they need to sever causality to advance further," Immortal Fairy emphasized.

"Alright, Heavenly Immortal Ying and the others think that way. So, if the national teacher forms the Dao fruit of causality, wouldn't he be able to sever causality at will and become a being above immortals?"

Immortal Fairy shook her head: "That's not how it works. The moment the national teacher formed the embryonic form of the Dao fruit of causality, he became intricately linked with the concept of 'causality.' Forming the Dao fruit of causality would further bind him to this concept, merging them into one."

"Once he's merged with the concept of 'causality,' how could he sever it?"

"He probably heard somewhere that immortals value causality, so he tried to form the Dao fruit of causality, not realizing this was a fundamental mistake."

"There are no shortcuts to becoming an immortal. Trying to take shortcuts is impossible."

"That said, although there might indeed be realms above immortals, none of us five have ever cared about it."

"Why not?"

"Because there's no need. We've become immortals, with infinite lifespans and unmatched power. We're living well. Why pursue a higher realm?"

Lu Yang felt that what the Fairy said made a lot of sense.

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